SYNOPSIS

Responding to a selection of six strikingly different photographic works capturing complex, rhythmic waveforms, not only are Laposky’s images a visual inspiration for Lyken’s compositions but the original process behind the creation of the artworks has been utilised to generate the short films that accompany the performance.

BEN LAPOSKY

BEN F LAPOSKY (1914 -2000) was an artist and mathematician from Cherokee, Iowa, who from 1950 onward created over 100 oscillogram artworks that he called OSCILLONS. These trace images were generated using a collection of electronic equipment connected together to produce complex rhythmic waveforms that were photographed from the screen of a cathode-rayoscilloscope. His original one-man show of black and white Oscillons, along with 52 additional color images, is curated and controlled by the Sanford Museum and often travels to museums and universities internationally.